dinner party

noun

: a party at which dinner is served
She hosted a dinner party at her apartment.

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Taper candles are the perfect addition to a dinner party tablescape. Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2025 With the holiday season ahead, dinner party hosts have likely begun their planning, choosing everything from guest lists to menus and tablescapes to timelines. Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2025 Pear tarts and crisps are good dinner party or holiday desserts. Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 29 Oct. 2025 An art conservator who'd prefer to be immersed in detail work, Sarah is bombing as the host of a dinner party where her entrepreneur husband (Tom Riley) hopes to impress an obnoxious prospective investor (Tom Goodman-Hill) when a literal explosive goes off in her neighborhood. Judy Berman, Time, 29 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dinner party

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“Dinner party.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dinner%20party. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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